Abstract
Radiotelevisione Italiana recently financed a number of feature films by directors of international reknown, including Antonioni, Rossellini, Rocha, Cavani, Rossi, Jancso, de Seta, Bresson, Andrade, Sanjines, the Taviani brothers, Pasolini, Bertolucci, and Godard, many of whom are avowed revolutionaries. Two of these films-San Michele Had a Rooster by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani,1 and The Night of San Juan (also called The Courage of the People) by Jorge Sanjines2-are important new works in themselves and are also lucid examples of two very different styles of revolutionary cinema: the case-study (subjective) approach, and the process-study (objective) approach. While these films are perhaps not the definitive examples of their type, I have selected them because they are excellent and because they are virtually unavailable to American audiences; as such, I felt a responsibility to enter them into the critical record.
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